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Date: | Fri, 7 Jun 1996 08:25:03 -0400 |
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REGARDING RE>America's honeybees
Walter Patton writes:
"The big question is why H Shimunaki U.S.D.A. did not mention the
hopeless situation facing U. S. beekeepers when their bees have mites
and viruses which may be being introduced to the U.S. beekeepers
from Canadian Bees entering the U.S. after being imported and
thus introducing and spreading honeybee pest and diseases
with total disregard for the intent of the Honey Bee Act of 1922
which had a strict prohibition against the import of honeybees
to the U.S. for the specic verbadium purpose to "prevent the introduction
and
spread of pests and diseases to U.S. honeybees." H. Shimunaki since
his paid consultancy and paid 6 or 8 week vacation for he and his wife to
New Zealand has had no concern for New Zealand bees being allowed
into the U.S. via Canada without regard for the original intent
of the Honeybee Act of 1922. Further H. Shimunaki allowed for a
Federal Registry notification to be published stating that the
U.S.D.A., Secretary of Agriculture had found New Zealand
to be free of any pests and diseases of honeybees, a fraudulent
statement, WHY? Beekeepers of America need new leadership
at the U.S.D.A. with peer review to solve the problems with
honeybees in the United States of America."
I have hesitated up till now to enter this fray, but I can't help it any
longer. Except from Mr. Patton, I have never heard that there was any
disease or mite problem with New Zealand bees. Just the contrary - Canadian
beekeepers have been prohibited (until now at least) from importing American
bees because of *our* mite problem, and have had to get them all the way from
New Zealand or raise the bees themselves (a better approach anyway). Why
does Mr. Patton claim that Dr. Shimunaki's statement about New Zealand bees
is fraudulent? Let's have some hard *facts* about this, or otherwise drop
the subject.
Ted Fischer
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